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Mozilla



The Mozilla company (corporation and foundation) with its flagship product/project Firefox were historically good, but things turned sour as users migrated elsewhere and the company's leadership made countless self-harming moves. We covered some of them in the following posts, grouped by theme rather than chronologically:

Privacy

  • A Supposedly Privacy-Loving Mozilla Keeps Slurping Up 'Talent' From the Zuckerberg Espionage Hive (Propelled Directly Into Executive-Level Management)
  • “Internet Villain” Mozilla. Can Enough Really Be Said?
  • Mozilla Keeps Changing Users’ Settings to Blast Misinformation (or Present Dishonest Ads) at Them in New Tabs
  • Mozilla Hires Yet Another Executive (Senior Vice President) From Facebook, So Forget About Privacy
  • Age of Digital Deception: Startpage, Mozilla and the Linux Foundation Are Enemies of Your Privacy
  • Mozilla Does Not Respect Your Privacy
  • Mozilla Shames Itself and Harms Its Reputation by Stating That “Comcast Has Taken Major Steps to Protect Customer Privacy”
  • Mozilla Will Relay Firefox User Input (Even Keystrokes) to Microsoft and the NSA Through Yahoo in the US
  • Facebook and Other Surveillance Capitalists Won’t Save Mozilla From Google Dependence


  • Mismanagement

  • Mozilla is GAFAM, Just Look at Who Runs the Company
  • Mozilla CEO Increased Her Salary From 2.5 Million Dollars to Over 3 Million in One Year (10+ Times More Than Her Peers’ Salaries) Despite Poor Performance and They Still Want Donations
  • This Month Mozilla Firefox Reached Its Lowest Share (Just 3%), But CEO Baker Made a Fortune (Especially When Mozilla Sank)
  • Mozilla Waters Down Its Vision of The Internet
  • Late December Data: Mozilla Firefox Market Share Fell From About 4% to 3% This Year (25% Decrease)
  • Meme: Mozilla Does Not Trust Web Sites, But It Trusts the CIA Enough to Hire Managers From It
  • Mozilla Hired Top-Level Managers Directly From the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Can They Be Trusted on Privacy?
  • The Sad Story of Mozilla Keeps Getting Sadder Because Mozilla’s Managers Abandoned Users and Chose Companies as Their Clients
  • Firefox Cannot be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
  • Video: Getting Off the Web and Away From Mozilla Firefox


  • Technical Deficit

  • The World Wide Web is Proprietary and Mozilla Contributes to That
  • You Cannot Remove Google-Controlled Web Browsers From Debian
  • Mozilla Firefox in the Windows Store is an Unnecessary Distraction
  • Mozilla Allows Facebook to Sabotage Messenger Live Video in Firefox for Three Years, Then Takes a Swipe at Me for Calling Them Out
  • Mozilla Firefox Takes Another Step in the Direction of Being Malware With “Firefox Suggest”
  • Mozilla Has Turned From Technical to Marketing
  • Firefox ESR 91 Creating Massive Headache for Debian 11 (GNU/Linux)


  • Censorship

  • Mozilla Is Not to Be Trusted and Firefox is Becoming a Mass Censorship Tool
  • ‘Hacker’ ‘News’ ‘Flags’ Accurate and Factual Article About Mozilla, So Let’s Say More About Mozilla…
  • Mozilla Should Focus on Improving Thunderbird and Fixing Bugs Instead of Eradicating Innocuous Words
  • Beware Mozilla and Rust, They’re Not Friends of Free Software or Even of Free Speech


  • Microsoft Connections

  • Meanwhile, at Mozilla, You Have to Sign Into Microsoft to Use BugZilla…
  • Regrettable Acts of Self-Harm: OpenMandriva and Mozilla Being Outsourced to Microsoft Proprietary Software and Monopoly
  • Mozilla Hires From Microsoft for Mozilla’s Board
  • Mozilla Foundation Harder to Trust After Microsoft Endorsement
  • Quick Mention: Mozilla Detoxicated from Microsoft Influence
  • Mozilla’s 2020 Vision


  • DRM

  • Mozilla Cannot Claim to Teach People About the Web While Facilitating, Defending and Even Promoting DRM
  • DRM (Proprietary Software) Already Makes Mozilla Firefox Broken, Unreliable, Undependable (Dependent on Binary Blobs)
  • The Web is Becoming More Proprietary and Means for Accessing the Web Likewise (Now With DRM and With Limited — by Design — Compatibility)
  • Microsoft Software Patents in Codecs, Web Font DRM, and Likewise-HP
  • Pushing Back Towards ‘Libre’ (Freedom), Partly as an Act of Defiance/Resistance Against a World Wide Web Which Gravitates Towards Endless Spying and DRM
  • DRM on Text in Mozilla Firefox Not Ruled Out


  • Misc. and Old

  • It Was Mozilla — Not Google (or Chrome) — That Liberated the World Wide Web From MSIE Monoculture and O/S Vendor Lock-in, But Firefox is Likely Dying
  • Firefox Becomes as Morally Reprehensible as Apple, Facebook, or Uber
  • Mozilla Unofficially Joins ECIS and Opera in Opposition to Microsoft’s Deal in Europe; Microsoft Poisoned Firefox
  • Mozilla News: Less Microsoft, No Persona, More Mono, and Less Intrusive Addons
  • People Trust Mozilla, Show Confidence Regarding Security and Privacy
  • Mozilla is Fighting for Us
  • Mozilla a Victim of the MPEG-LA Cartel
  • Mozilla Sells Out
  • As Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich Can Put an End to Mono and Intrusive Ads in Firefox
  • Tor Compromised by Microsoft Windows, Not Mozilla Firefox
  • Todd Simpson From Mozilla Joined an Angry Patent Troll, IBM Tries to Warp Debate About Software Patents to Focus Just on Trolls
  • Microsoft Updates Windows 11 to Stop People From Escaping Edge with EdgeDeflector
  • Microsoft Accused of “Sabotaging Firefox”
  • After Brendan Eich Comes Chris Beard


  • New Claims That Brendan Eich Got Abused and Pushed Out for Opposing DRM, Not for Opposing Gay Marriage Some Time in the Past
  • Mozilla’s Rob Sayre Claims to Have Revealed More Internet Explorer 9 Benchmark Fraud From Microsoft
  • Mozilla Does Not Endorse Microsoft’s Search, Media Distortions to Blame
  • Mozilla Should Denounce Microsoft Windows, Not Just Proprietary Web Browsers
  • Software Patents Not a Done Deal in New Zealand, Mozilla Weighs in
  • Mozilla Gains More Credibility by Hiring Xiph.org Founder Monty Montgomery
  • Mozilla and Many Other Companies Are in Trouble as Silicon Valley Bubbles Are Bursting
  • Removing Mozilla’s Firefox and Installing LibreWolf and/or Brave, Instead